(born 10 September 1962) is a retired

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triple jump The triple jump, sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jump, is a track and field event, similar to the long jump. As a group, the two events are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". The competitor runs down th ...

er. He was the first Japanese to jump over 17 metres in the event. His personal best jump was 17.15 metres, achieved in June 1986 in Tokyo. His children are also track and field athletes. His oldest son Kohei Yamashita is also triple jumper and competed at the

2016 Olympic Games ) , nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams) , athletes = 11,238 , events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines) , opening = 5 August 2016 , closing = 21 August 2016 , opened_by = Vice President Michel Temer , cauldron = Vanderlei Cordeiro d ...

. His second son

Jun Yamashita is a Japanese athlete. He competed in the men's 200 metres event at the 2019 World Athletics Championships The 2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships () was the seventeenth edition of the biennial, global athletics competition organised ...

is a sprinter and competed at the 2019 World Championships. His daughter Toko Yamashita is also triple jumper and finished seventh at the 2020 Japanese Championships.

Personal bests

Achievements

National titles

* Japanese Championships **Triple jump: 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1992, 1995, 1996

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* * 1962 births Living people Sportspeople from Mie Prefecture Japanese male triple jumpers Olympic male triple jumpers Olympic athletes for Japan Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics Asian Games gold medalists for Japan Asian Games gold medalists in athletics (track and field) Athletes (track and field) at the 1986 Asian Games Medalists at the 1986 Asian Games Competitors at the 1986 Goodwill Games World Athletics Championships athletes for Japan Japan Championships in Athletics winners University of Tsukuba alumni {{Japan-athletics-bio-stub